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This is how a lot of teaching works- the teachers often have knowledge marginally above the level of the class they’re teaching, and are teaching out a book/syl
by albertgoeswoof 6y ago
This is how a lot of teaching works- the teachers often have knowledge marginally above the level of the class they’re teaching, and are teaching out a book/syllabus with no flexibility
It doesn’t work for programming because most people haven’t studied it tor years at school (unlike maths, literature, etc.), so can’t help solve the problems that crop up under the hood so often.
- skissane 6y ago> This is how a lot of teaching works- the teachers often have knowledge marginally above the level of the class they’re teaching, and are teaching out a book/syllabus with no flexibility In high school, our computing textbook contained blatant errors. I tried to explain this to the teachers, but soon realised they didn't know anything about the subject at all, they were just repeating the textbook without understanding it. (Example: our textbook falsely claimed TCP/IP used parity bits as an error detection mechanism. No, it uses ones' complement checksums. I referred to RFCs 791 and 793. The teacher had no idea what an RFC was.)
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoYes I know, and I think it's an extremely poor method. My younger siblings have atrocious fundamental math skills because teachers don't understand the fundamentals themselves.
- cutler 6y agoMy 1970s grammar school teachers in a typical northern working class town knew their subject inside out and could take an able student all the way to Oxford or Cambridge. In the 80s new directives increased teachers' admin workload killing extra-curricular activities such as our prize-winning chess team. That's the UK education system for you.